Hell is rotoscoped

Has this ever been had this experience?

You're sitting there enjoying one of the many fine, substandard programs on offer from our great cultural unidirectional chumbucket we call TV, when you're visually accosted by this:




I HATE these GDMFing commercials...am I the only one who finds them disturbing to look at? This process of superimposing animation over film is called "rotoscoping". Can you say "rotoscoping"? Good, I knew you could!

It feels like my guts are slowly trying to turn inside out when I see these things. I literally will scramble across the room, dive across the couch for the remote and turn the TV right the eff off. You should see it - I pretty much look like that new James Bond dude in an intense action sequence.

While looking for this commercial on YouTube, I came across some interesting info: an entire film, A Scanner Darkly, was made utilizing this technology. Here's the trailer:



This, for some reason, is far less disturbing to me, which I find extremely odd given the fact that it subjects me to Keanu Reeves. Maybe it's all the other effects they use, maybe it's the fact the film is more of an artistic endeavor than just blatant, pornographic commercialism...I'm not sure.

And just because I feel that there is not enough YouTubery contained in this post, here's funnyman Jim Gaffigan talkin' 'bout some bacon: